No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
